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Winter weather advisory continues for much of central and north Arkansas. Entergy crews are working to get power lines back up in central Arkansas. About 8,100 customers are without power: 3169 in Pulaski County, 2289 in Jefferson County, 760 in Grant County, 986 in Saline County
The new Caterpillar plant to be built in North Little Rock will bring 600 new jobs and will be the North American headquarters for road grader operations. The governor used $3 million from his quick closing fund. North Little Rock will provide reduced electricity bills, a new power substation, a water treatment facility, the waiver of building permit fees and carbon offsets.
Former Arkansas Razorbacks quarterback Nathan Dick is transferring to Central Arkansas to play for the UCA Bears.
State general revenue declined in December by $20.2 million compared with December 2007, the first dip since May of 2008. Revenue is still ahead of forecast.
Tuition at the University of Arkansas will probably increase this fall, Chancellor Dave Gearhart said Monday. Rising costs and an endowment hammered by the stock market are the two main factors,
The ACLU of Arkansas filed a motion for temporary injunction today in Pulaski circuit court asking that the state be prohibited from using Act 1 to separate children in state care from family members until its challenge of the law has been settled.
Malvern parents seeking to strike down the state’s School Choice Act, which has prevented their white children from legally transferring to mostly white schools, are now suing the state Board of Education and four more school districts.
Ten months after hearing oral arguments on whether the Little Rock School District is entitled to unitary status, a federal appeals court panel sent assurances Monday that it is continuing to work on the case
The 20 Arkansas counties that sued cold-medicine manufacturers because the ingredients in their products could be used to make methamphetamines lost their case at the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals today. The court said their logic — that their claim paralled those against gun manufacturers — wouldn’t necessarily be true under Arkansas law.
Tyson CEO Dick Bond is out. His resignation was submitted yesterday, effective immediately. Former Tyson chief Leland Tolett is the interim. Head.
Chesapeake Energy has sold proved reserves in the Arkoma and Anadarko basins for $412 million as part of a plan to increase cash reserves.
An Arkansas rice mill has agreed to pay $350,000 after the federal government found the company discriminated against hundreds of women and non-Hispanic job applicants. Producers Rice Mill of Stuttgart, discriminated against 246 females and 363 non-Hispanics who were seeking work as machine operators or laborers.
Two men are behind bars for allegedly beating another man to death in Fayetteville Monday afternoon.
Thomas A. Garrett, an assistant vice president at the St. Louis Federal Reserve and UALR economics professor Gary Wagner have conducted a study proving that a drop in local revenue to city government will lead to an increase in the number of traffic citations.
Roby Brock’s television interview with State Senator Bob Johnson has some material of interest to central Arkansas. Johnson suggests bulldozing not only Ray Winder Field but the Little Rock Zoo to accommodate part of what he calls a hi-tech corridor. It’s part of a larger plan to merge UCA and UALR.
Henry Williams, a former St. Louis-area school superintenden, and a former LR Chief,t accused of misappropriating district money was ordered Monday to serve five years probation and pay more than $100,000 in restitution.
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